ILTEC was created in 1988 to host the Portuguese team of the Eurotra project. During its 20 years of existence, ILTEC had a decisive role in the development of linguistic studies in Portugal, in the introduction of computational linguistics in our country, as well as in the training of a whole generation of linguists and computational linguists who work in these fields in both national and international institutions and enterprises.

For all these reasons, we believe that it is worth celebrating ILTEC's 20th anniversary. We are hosting a scientific event under the general theme of Discourse, Diversity and Literacy: Portuguese Language in the 21st century. This event will be held in the Portuguese Language. More information about this event and the updated program are available at http://www.iltec.pt/20anos/index.html